# collage
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
* (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh'; IPA: /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ

### Noun

collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)
* A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
* A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
    Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage
    Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.
* (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
    Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage

#### Derived terms

* collage film
* collagelike
* collage novel
* collagey
* collagic
* collagist
* collagistic
* decollage
* photocollage

#### Related terms

* décollage

#### See also

* montage
* papier-mâché
* pastiche
* decoupage
* bricolage

### Verb

collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)
* (transitive) To make into a collage.
    collage the picture together.

#### Derived terms

* collager

### See also

* collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:collage on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* alcogel

## Basque
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /kolaʒ/ [ko.laʒ]
* IPA: (Southern) /kolaʃ/ [ko.laʃ]
* Rhymes: -olaʒ
* Rhymes: -olaʃ

### Noun

collage inan
* collage

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “collage”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
* Rhymes: -aːʒə

### Noun

collage m (plural collages)
* collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
* collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)

#### Derived terms

* herfstcollage

#### Related terms

* col

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: kolase

## French
### Etymology

From coller +‎ -age.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.laʒ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aʒ

### Noun

collage m (plural collages)
* collage
* (photography) montage

#### Related terms

* décollage

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: collage
* → Chinese: 珂拉琪
* → Dutch: collage
* → English: collage
* → German: Collage
* → Irish: colláis
* → Italian: collage
* → Japanese: コラージュ
* → Korean: 콜라주 (kollaju)
* → Portuguese: colagem (semantic loan)
* → Russian: колла́ж (kolláž) (see there for further descendants)
* → Turkish: kolaj

### Further reading

* “collage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Noun

collage
* Alternative form of college

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlaʃ/ [koˈlaʃ]
** Rhymes: -aʃ
* IPA: /koˈlaʒ/ [koˈlaʒ]
** Rhymes: -aʒ

### Noun

collage m (plural collages)
* collage

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

#### Further reading

* “collage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10